i have been a talktalk customer for some time now and upto last month i was getting a minimum of 13mbps download speeds which is about right as im ment to get between 12.8 - 17.7mbps with a guarentted minimum of 11.1mbps but over the last 5 weeks it has been 9.5mbps i tried reporting it 3 weeks ago only to be told " we cant check right now as were doing upgrades to our systems" and tried again yesterday only to be told "yes you are below the minimum guarenteed speeds but its by a acceptable amount so we cant do anything about it" i disagree i dont find it acceptable at all. when i was getting 13mbps which isnt exactly lightning fast anyway and it drops to 9.5 it makes a noticable difference. how is this acceptable? its dropped below the minimum guarenteed speed "keyword there guarenteed" how is that acceptable? and how is being fobbed off instead of talktalk actually doing something about it acceptable? it is not! i want my speed back to atleast the minimum guarenteed and as a customer of talktalk i think they owe me atleast that much.

my master socket as far as i know does not have a test socket and as for my voice services i wouldn't know i purposely never bought a phone for it. my logic behind not getting a phone was no phone plugged in = no calls charges. it seemed like really sound logic at the time.

there is a small amount of static white noise on the line "reminds me of light rain" but as far as i know that could be normal on a landline i've always used mobile. what i can tell you is my mobile phone line as far clearer than the landline is. i would suggest calling my landline and testing for yourselfs but the noise can only be heard on my end so that probably wouldn't work out.

is it normal to pick up someone else when you call your own landline from your mobile?

i ask cos i called myself bout 10minutes ago just for the fun of it and ofcourse the landline rang as it should but after about 60 seconds i started picking up a onesided conversation on my mobile bout merging documents but my landline wasnt picking that up at all. not sure what happened there but weird right? surely the only person i should have been able to hear on my mobile is me talking into the landline.

still trying to figure out why my speeds are so crap, i have now tried swapping out my talktalk router for my old sky one (made no difference) swapped out the filters and the cable to the router aswel(still made no difference) i have now plugged the talktalk equipment back in and have it running via the test socket but as of right now its still below my minimum guarenteed speeds. i tried to check my sync speeds but truthfully i couldn't make heads or tails out of the data

technically i got two master sockets both directly next to each other, but one of them is dead so one. the only things plugged into the test socket is router and phone via a micro filter. i dont believe the problem is the router or the micro filter as i have swapped these out for alternatives and still get the same poor speeds on my broadband. i have tested the line with and without the micro filter and get a small amount of noise both ways on the line. (but like i have said before as far as i know this could be normal) i dont know if landlines are ment to be a crystal clear as mobiles. what i do know is if my minimum guarenteed speed is 11mbps i should be getting atleast that. i also know i use to get 13mbps but now i cant even manage 10 which is below my minimum guarenteed